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How long should I keep my local and off-site backups?
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Keep it as long as your data changes. 3 months is a good amount for myself. The backups are only good for deleted documents (for me).
I always think to myself, at what point will that data still be valuable? Most of the time all the important stuff sticks around forever, and if you delete a document how long till you realised? A day? A month? Half a year?
That might help cull some of the older data.
You could always use a different host for your offsite. We use Wasabi storage which is $6-7/TB/m for Reddthat, and for object storage it's great. Or could even use B2 etc. But for personal data a good 70$/y might be out of your budget. If borgbackup can handle s3 it can handle wasabi.
Thanks, but that's not really helping me. I hoped for maybe advice to change my retention policy..
Sorry! Was drinking! It was probably lost in the wall of text.
I only got up to 3 months, with a retention policy of 7day, 4weeks, 3months as the dedupe is very good. If I didn't have dedupe it would be only up to 4 weeks.
The reasons are, I notice if I've lost a file in <3months and if I lose a drive the latest backup would be the one I restore from. (Yesterday in this case).
Why would I ever need the 1 year old backup?
Hope that makes more sense.